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Changes After Construction
It was first built as a masjid. In 1853, Refet Kadın Efendi, the wife of Sultan Selim III, placed a minbar in the masjid and the building was thus converted into a mosque.
The building was used as a warehouse during World War I and was evacuated during the 1918 Armistice, but it could not be opened for worship because it was so dilapidated.
It was rebuilt in the 1960s and took its current form.
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Inside is the tomb of Bali Efendi.
It has a rectangular plan close to a square, a flat roof, a thick-bodied, single-balcony minaret, its mihrab and walls are decorated with tiles, and its minbar and preacher’s pulpit are covered with the same tiles.
